why?
“Mom I can’t do it anymore, It’s not the same without her..”
It was a nice, sunny, late June day, I walked out of my house thinking today would be just any other day, I didn’t know that the news I was about to get would change me, and how I viewed the world forever. I walked down the street to my friends house that only lived a block away, as I made my way down the hill that seperated our houses, I kicked rocks and thought about summer and all the things I wanted to do. As I aproched my friend, Sidney’s house, I walked in and saw her sitting at the kitchen table, with her head in her hands, as if she was a turtle trying to hide herself from the world. I knew something wasn’t right. Her eyes were stuffy and her face was splottchy and red, she had been crying but why? She stands up gives me a hug and slowly tells me what had happened the day before to one of our close friends that we used to do swim team with.
“Autumn was …show more content…
We drifted apart after she quit because she moved, but Autumn was and always will be in my heart, she impacted so many people and didn’t even know it, if I could go back, I would tell her how important she truly was. I took her existence for granted, I took our time together for granted and I took the idea of having a really amazing friend for granted. Life is so short, you only get one, I learned this the hard way when I lost someone that was once very close to me. I’ll never get her back, but I can live my life to the fullest, take every moment and savor it. Living life to the fullest is something that should be a given, you only get one chanceat life. Use it. Maybe everything happens for a reason. If this wouldn't have happened I wouldn’t have learned something about myself I wouldn’t have grown as a person, sometimes I wonder if I could’ve learned the same lessons in a different way,a way that didn’t cost the unimaginable price of a
“Mom I can’t do it anymore, It’s not the same without her..”
It was a nice, sunny, late June day, I walked out of my house thinking today would be just any other day, I didn’t know that the news I was about to get would change me, and how I viewed the world forever. I walked down the street to my friends house that only lived a block away, as I made my way down the hill that seperated our houses, I kicked rocks and thought about summer and all the things I wanted to do. As I aproched my friend, Sidney’s house, I walked in and saw her sitting at the kitchen table, with her head in her hands, as if she was a turtle trying to hide herself from the world. I knew something wasn’t right. Her eyes were stuffy and her face was splottchy and red, she had been crying but why? She stands up gives me a hug and slowly tells me what had happened the day before to one of our close friends that we used to do swim team with.
“Autumn was …show more content…
We drifted apart after she quit because she moved, but Autumn was and always will be in my heart, she impacted so many people and didn’t even know it, if I could go back, I would tell her how important she truly was. I took her existence for granted, I took our time together for granted and I took the idea of having a really amazing friend for granted. Life is so short, you only get one, I learned this the hard way when I lost someone that was once very close to me. I’ll never get her back, but I can live my life to the fullest, take every moment and savor it. Living life to the fullest is something that should be a given, you only get one chanceat life. Use it. Maybe everything happens for a reason. If this wouldn't have happened I wouldn’t have learned something about myself I wouldn’t have grown as a person, sometimes I wonder if I could’ve learned the same lessons in a different way,a way that didn’t cost the unimaginable price of a